During her early teens, she served as goaltender with several boys' teams of Itä-Helsingin Kiekko [fi] (IHK) and was the starting net minder for the IHK boys' under-16 (U16) team during the 2014–15 season. In the following season, she split starts for IHK U17 in the U17 Mestis.[4] In addition to backstopping IHK teams, she continued to play as both a skater and goaltender with Red Wing girls' teams.[2][4]
When Saara Niemi established the new HIFK Naiset team in 2018, Ahola was one of the first players she named to the team.[5][6] HIFK's inaugural season was an historic success that culminated in the team’s promotion to the Naisten Liiga (NSML), the premier national league in Finland.[7][8] Ahola maintained a .957 save percentage across seventeen Naisten Mestis games, improving to .967 across five games in the post-season Naisten Liiga qualification series.[9]
By Ahola's own assessment, the 2021–22 season "didn't go exactly as [she] would have liked."[12] The team struggled overall, amassing a 9-23-3 record with a win percentage of .300, and Ahola's game was not immune to the collective slump. Deployed in a goaltending tandem with Polusny, she played in eighteen games and recorded a .900 save percentage, 3.75 GAA, and chartered a 5-13-0 record.
Ahead of the 2022–23 season, Brian Idalski was named head coach of the Huskies program and Finnish Olympian Mira Jalosuo was hired as the assistant coach overseeing defense. The coaching staff was the catalyst for a "really big change in the team" and a Ahola was one of a number of players who had career years under the new regime.[12] Highlights of her season included a shutout against the Bemidji State Beavers on 4 November and a 34-save performance in St. Cloud State's 4–1 victory over the Minnesota Golden Gophers on 7 November, the fourth win against Minnesota in program history.[13][14][15] Her continued level of play across the remaining games of November 2022 resulted in her selection as the WCHA Goaltender of the Month and as the St. Cloud State University (SCSU) Athletics Female Athlete of the Month.[16][17]
At the 2018 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship, she recorded the best save percentage (.929) and best goals against average (1.81) of all starters at the tournament, and was selected as one of the top-three players for Finland by the coaches.[19]
She made her debut with the Finnish national team in the second tournament of the 2022–23 Women's Euro Hockey Tour, a 5-nations tournament in Ängelholm, Sweden.[12] Starting in two matches, she notched a win against Switzerland and posted a shutout against Germany.[20]
Ahola was born on 3 June 2000 to Riikka and Jukka Ahola in Helsinki, Finland. She attended the sports high school of the North Haaga Community School [fi] in the Haaga district of Helsinki.[23]